The settings in the "Windows Start Menu" tab are for affecting the Windows 7 start menu. It is for people who prefer the native menu over the classic menu but want to change its behavior in some ways. It made more sense in the older versions before Classic Shell had the "Windows 7" style.

However note that the built in 'Pin to Start menu (Classic Shell)' works only for EXE files and LNKs, and closes the submenu whereas the registry tweak works for multiple files selected at once as well as for any file extension, shows a nice icon and doesn't close the submenu.

However note that the built in 'Pin to Start menu (Classic Shell)' works only for EXE files and LNKs, and closes the submenu whereas the registry tweak works for multiple files selected at once as well as for any file extension, shows a nice icon and doesn't close the submenu.

it seems the padding around the Classic with 2 Columns has been increased.. Is there any way to adjust the passing thickness to make it a bit thinner?

I can actually not fit the same number of items due to the padding, one item gets the bottom half buried in under the 2-row start menu, so i have to delete an Item, meaning one item less on the start menu

hmm, well none of my earlier screenshots show it exactly, though maybe the bottom & sides look the same

Perhaps you fixed something on the top overflow.. the top has a nice border now, I seem to recall it pushing things upwards beyond the top of the screen before.. maybe because my Photo & Username werent disabled and they just got pushed upwards, not sure

ok, well, it would be a cool option to be able to thin out the top and bottom padding by about half

thanks for the new release. Unfortunately, something appears to be wrong with it. Since installing, I have the beautiful Windows 7-Style start menu but the pinned items (upper part of the list) are gone. I can only see the list of recently started programs. There is no horizontal separator bar either.When I right-click e.g. Outlook in All Programs --> Microsoft Office --> Microsoft Outlook, it offers me to unpin the icon from the start menu though... so Windows still seems to think it's pinned but the Classic Start Menu is not showing it any longer.I have skimmed the options and reset them to defaults, to no avail. Changing to the other start menu designs also has no effect, the pinned icons are gone.Any idea on what I can do besides reversing to an older Classic Shell version? Does anybody else suffer this?

By default the Windows 7 style uses a new Pinned folder to store the pinned programs. It is empty by default.

You have 2 options - if you have any interesting programs pinned in older versions, they will be in the Start Menu folder (currently will show inside the All Programs list). There is an option to show the Start Menu folder on the main menu like before. In the Main Menu tab change the "Pinned Programs folder" setting to "Use Start Menu folder".

If you don't care about your old pinned programs, pin some new ones. Right-click on a shortcut and select "Pin to start menu (Classic Shell)" or drag the shortcut to the start button, wait for the menu to open and drop the shortcut inside.

@Ivo: sorry, my mistake, the Classic Start Menu is so similar to the Windows 7 one that I just confused them. Actually I was using Classic Explorer before but not Classic Start Menu (because for now, I feel the Windows 7 built-in start menu has all I need).Well, we all will be forced sooner or later to move to Windows 8, so I better make myself at home with Classic Start Menu, too It's the first thing to be installed on Windows 8 to give that blasted OS some use at all.Thank you for your efforts. The results are just amazing!

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